Since the beginning of his presidency, Obama has been dogged by rumors that he was lying about being a Christian, despite religious scholars calling his faith “explicitly Christian.”

“Obama may be the most explicitly Christian president in American history,” Messiah College professor John Fea wrote in February. “If we analyze his language in the same way that historians examine the religious language of the Founding Fathers or even George W. Bush, we will find that Obama’s piety, use of the Bible, and references to Christian faith and theology put most other American presidents to shame on this front. I think there may be good reasons why some people will not vote for Obama in November, but his commitment to Christianity is not one of them.”